Faisal Gill: Pakistani born CAIR linked dangerous Islamist - now also anti Police )

Submitted by Nora (United States), Oct 28, 2022 at 14:04

Meet the Anti-Israel, Anti-Police LA City Attorney Candidate

Faisal Gill has worked for a host of anti-Israel groups
...far-left views on community policing and crime are so extreme that Democratic representative Karen Bass, who is running to be the city's mayor, withdrew her endorsement.

Faisal Gill, a libertarian Republican-turned-progressive Democrat, is running to become L.A.'s city attorney, a powerful post that will give him the ability to decide what types of minor crimes are prosecuted. "The city attorney is not elected to defend the police," Gill states on his campaign website. He also says he wants to end cash bail, support safe injection sites, and reduce criminal prosecutions. His views have become a liability for Bass, who pulled her endorsement of Gill as she attempts to distance herself from radical elements in her own party.

Bass withdrew her endorsement after Gill pledged to stop prosecuting certain misdemeanors after 100 days, even as L.A. has experienced a rise in crime and violence in the past couple years. Gill's campaign advocates the sort of progressive law enforcement policies that have made the upcoming race such a slog for Democrats. Voters have turned on progressive San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin, who was recalled, and Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner, who faces impeachment.
... community leaders who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon said that at a time of rising anti-Semitic violence Gill's past work with a cadre of Islamist groups tied to terrorism financing is fueling fears.
Gill served as the spokesman for the American Muslim Council, an advocacy group formed with backing from the Muslim Brotherhood, an anti-Israel Islamist organization that promotes Jew hatred. The council's founder, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, was sentenced to 23 years in jail in 2004 as part of a terrorism financing case. Gill's campaign also is receiving financial support from leading members of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an anti-Israel group known for peddling falsehoods about Israel and Jews.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-anti-israel-anti-police-la-city-attorney-candidate/amp/

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See also on Faisal Gill Islamism:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080820081243/http://www.crossactionnews.com/articles/view/norquists-muslim-protgs

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